Last night was Glee's season finale set in the Big Apple, and the show opened with shots of the city and "Rhapsody in Blue." The New Directions choir broke out in a mash-up of Madonna's "I Love New York" and "New York, New York" from the musical On The Town (yes, the Bronx is up and the Battery's down) as they danced in Times Square, Washington Square Park, Central Park and Lincoln Center. Oh, and Puck's New York dream is to: "Throw stuff from the Brooklyn Bridge." You can watch the entire episode here:
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Video: Glee Visits New York, New York, A Helluva Town
Patti Lupone To Guest On Glee Finale
It's only fitting that for a show so fond of Broadway stars as guests (see: Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenowith, and uh, Neil Patrick Harris?), Glee should land the Big Mama (Rose) of them all for their upcoming season finale, Patti Lupone. The Great White Way legend, late of Gypsy, has apparently will be acting against Lea Michele and Cory Monteith in the May 28th finale. No further details have been released, but borderline-creepy Twitter account @BroadwaySpotted has been tracking Lupone's every move!
August: Osage County, In the Heights, Gypsy, and South Pacific Win Big at 2008 Tony Awards
The 62nd Annual Tony Awards were presented last night at Radio City Musical Hall; the biggest winners were a musical first staged in 1949 and a Pulitzer Prize winning pot boiler from Chicago. The acclaimed Lincoln Center revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific won the most awards, besting Sunday in the Park with George and Gypsy for best revival of a musical and nabbing six other Tonys. And the overrated Hollywood-bound melodrama August: Osage County won five awards, including best play, surprising no one.
Ceiling Debris Crashes on Broadway Audience
Times health writer Tara Parker-Pope got some unexpected thrills during last night’s performance of Gypsy, which stars Patti Lupone at Broadway’s St. James Theater:
Toward the end of the show, as Ms. LuPone’s Mama Rose was about to launch into her show-stopping number, there was a crash in the balcony. A huge metal plate, about 30 inches in diameter and used to cover a diffuser, came crashing down from the ceiling. It hit a young woman in the head and ricocheted into the back of my friend’s neck before rolling into my seat.The performance continued as a doctor checked the woman, who was then further treated by emergency medical technicians and released. What’s weird is that on the way into the preview performance, Parker-Pope’s friend had presciently remarked that “sometimes technical things happen, like stuff falls out of the ceiling,” when a show is in its first performances. Though the debris hit the friend on the back of the neck, she was protected by her coat collar and is “bruised but feeling better.”
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